How to format your references using the Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Download the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

Stockman MI (2015) Applied optics. Nanoplasmonic sensing and detection. Science 348:287–288

A journal article with 2 authors

Powrie F, Maloy KJ (2003) Immunology. Regulating the regulators. Science 299:1030–1031

A journal article with 3 authors

Grantab R, Shenoy VB, Ruoff RS (2010) Anomalous strength characteristics of tilt grain boundaries in graphene. Science 330:946–948

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Chen G-Y, Chen S-L, Li C-M, Chen Y-N (2013) Examining non-locality and quantum coherent dynamics induced by a common reservoir. Sci Rep 3:2514

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

Bisen PS, Debnath M, Prasad GBKS (2012) Microbes. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Camenisch J, Kesdoğan D (eds) (2016) Open Problems in Network Security: IFIP WG 11.4 International Workshop, iNetSec 2015, Zurich, Switzerland, October 29, 2015, Revised Selected Papers. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Webb AAR, Robertson FC (2011) Calcium Signals in the Control of Stomatal Movements. In: Luan S (ed) Coding and Decoding of Calcium Signals in Plants. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 63–77

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture.

Blog post

Andrew E (2014) Astronomers Spot Square Hole In Sun. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/astronomers-spot-square-hole-sun/. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

Government Accountability Office (1979) Release of Carson City Silver Dollar Bidders List. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Bemmel EP (2008) A cost -effectiveness analysis of two community college baccalaureate programs in Florida: An exploratory study. Doctoral dissertation, Florida Atlantic University

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

Lavin L (2017) I Sang in New York. New York Times AR5

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Stockman 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Powrie and Maloy 2003; Stockman 2015).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Powrie and Maloy 2003)
Three or more authors: (Chen et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Plant Cell, Tissue and Organ Culture
Abbreviation	Plant Cell Tissue Organ Cult.
ISSN (print)	0167-6857
ISSN (online)	1573-5044
Scope	Horticulture